Liv1204

I was 20 when my mum was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. I tried to keep a happy act at home but I went back to uni the week after and absolutely broke down. I sat on the curb by a road one night and just sobbed and sobbed. A guy walking home from a pub night out stopped… Read More

Hannah's anorexia storyline on Channel 4's Hollyoaks.

My mum told me that recovery (from self-harm/mental health struggles) is like firefighting: You start to put out the big fire, and as you do, little fires will crop up along the way that need putting out. But the fire gets put out. My lovely mum died when I was 22. She left a voice… Read More

A couple of months after my mum died I wrote a list of 366 things that make me smile, on the basis that if I could find that many reasons to smile then, there will always be something to smile for. Silly things, e.g. blankets, sitting on swings in a park, letting someone out in front… Read More

When my best friend and I were pretty young, we used to sing a couple of lines from Monty Python - 'Sit On My Face'. My brother liked Monty Python, we had never watched it back then. So the only lines we knew were 'Sit on my face and tell me that you love me. I'll sit on your face… Read More

The quote from Lestrade at the end... 'He's better than [a great man]. He's a good one.' Follows on from S1 Episode 1 when Lestrade says to John that 'He's a great man. And I think one day, if we're very, very lucky, he might even be a good one.' I am in love.